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Pairwise comparisons across species are problematic when analyzing functional genomic data

View ORCID ProfileCasey W. Dunn, Felipe Zapata, View ORCID ProfileCatriona Munro, Stefan Siebert, and View ORCID ProfileAndreas Hejnol
PNAS January 16, 2018 115 (3) E409-E417; first published January 4, 2018; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707515115
Casey W. Dunn
aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912;
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Felipe Zapata
bDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095;
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Catriona Munro
aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912;
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Stefan Siebert
cDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616;
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Andreas Hejnol
dSars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen 5006, Norway
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  1. Edited by David M. Hillis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, and approved December 1, 2017 (received for review May 8, 2017)

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vol. 115 no. 3 E409-E417
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707515115
PubMed: 
29301966

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue January 16, 2018.
  • Published first January 4, 2018.

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Author Information

  1. Casey W. Dunna,1,2,
  2. Felipe Zapatab,
  3. Catriona Munroa,
  4. Stefan Siebertc, and
  5. Andreas Hejnold
  1. aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912;
  2. bDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095;
  3. cDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616;
  4. dSars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen 5006, Norway
  1. Edited by David M. Hillis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, and approved December 1, 2017 (received for review May 8, 2017)

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: casey.dunn{at}yale.edu.
  • ↵2Present address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.

  • Author contributions: C.W.D., F.Z., C.M., S.S., and A.H. designed research; C.W.D. and F.Z. performed research; C.W.D. and F.Z. analyzed data; and C.W.D., F.Z., C.M., S.S., and A.H. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1707515115/-/DCSupplemental.

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